On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:31:46AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> [2006 Dec 06 01:25 -0600]: > > > I've been thinking about it, but haven't had the time. Do you now have > > a working install? how about X? > > I would say that it is mostly working. So far I haven't been able to > cleanly shutdown the system. It doesn't (yet) support Ctl-Alt-Del to > force a shutdown from the console and running any variant of the > shutdown command led to an error that it timed out waiting for > /dev/initctl. Since it only uses ext2, at some point I fully expect a > few problems with fsck recovery, > > I have not gotten far enough to install X as of yet. I have a good > base install. Thankfully Midnight Commander is available. I did > install it on a spare partition on my T23 so the basic support for the > laptop is there as it had no problem with the built-in ethernet. Now, > as to whether PCMCIA, sound, power control or anything like that is > supported, I don't yet know. My guess is that such support is > rudimentary at best if existant at all. > > At this point, my assessment is that it's suitable for experimentation. > At least it is Debian so it has that advantage. sounds like a good Hana-kwanza-solsti-stmas project :) A
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